LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020\'This is so good.
But if she can\'t save others, then what, or who, might save her? And all the while the voices of the city keep floating in--funny, disturbing, and increasingly mad..
When her brother becomes a father and Sylvia a recluse, Lizzie is forced to acknowledge the limits of what she can do.
As she dives into this polarized world, she begins to wonder what it means to keep tending your own garden once you\'ve seen the flames beyond its walls.
Sylvia has become famous for her prescient podcast, Hell and High Water, and wants to hire Lizzie to answer the mail she receives: from left-wingers worried about climate change and right wingers worried about the decline of western civilization.
They have both stabilized for the moment, but then her old mentor, Sylvia Liller, makes a proposal.
For years, she has supported her God-haunted mother and her recovering addict brother.
But this gives her a vantage point from which to practise her other calling: as an unofficial shrink.
We are not ready nor worthy\' Ocean Vuong \'What are you afraid of, he asks me and the answer of course is dentistry, humiliation, scarcity, then he says what are your most useful skills? People think I\'m funny\' Lizzie Benson slid into her job as a librarian without a traditional degree.
LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN\'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020\'This is so good
